'Saw everything': Alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella had extensive access in Trump White House
By: by Kerry Picket
Eric Ciaramella is a real piece of work and a traitor. He so hated the election process of our country that he worked to destroy our government from within. It seems Mc Master was a part of the deep state too or as they say naive to the point of being a useful idiot for the deep state.
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Eric Ciaramella, the alleged Ukraine whistleblower , was long suspected of deliberately attempting to damage President Trump's foreign policy from the inside and had access to policy information far beyond his regional expertise, according to former National Security Council officials.
Ciaramella, 33, a career CIA analyst, was Ukraine director on the NSC toward the end of the Obama administration and stayed there during the first few months of the Trump administration, when he was acting senior director for European and Russian affairs and then special assistant to Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, who was Trump's national security adviser, until he left the White House in summer 2017.
Now a deputy national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia on the National Intelligence Council, Ciaramella is suspected of being the official who filed a complaint about a July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Democrats are pursuing the impeachment of Trump, accusing him of linking Ukrainian military aid to investigating corruption related to business dealings by former vice president Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden.
“The person that I always felt extremely uncomfortable around was Eric Ciaramella. He was one of the few guys around who seemed to know where the filing cabinets were, so to speak,” one former official told the Washington Examiner , adding that Ciaramella was antagonistic at an early Trump administration gathering when it was said that the goal was to turn Trump’s campaign promises and platform into policy.
When the issue of Ukraine was brought up at a policy meeting, Ciaramella mentioned aid to Ukraine. He became visibly upset, the official recounted, when he was told that Trump would review Ukraine policy and that it would likely not be the same as President Barack Obama’s. “He kind of rolled his eyes and went, 'Hmph!' He didn't leave the room, but it was pretty clear that he thought that we were wrong and he was right. ... I never trusted him with anything after that."
"Body language to me was all that this guy was about, you know. He was not happy about the Trump administration. He wasn't on board with the Trump policy. So, I always assumed that he was leaker number one and not to be trusted."
Although much of Ciaramella's access as Ukraine director was limited by officials who were suspicious of him, he then managed to become close enough to McMaster to become his special assistant in May 2017.
Another former NSC official told the Washington Examiner : "He was a principal suspect in the leak of the first transcripts that came out on Mexico and Australia [in August 2017]. We couldn't get McMaster to run the tapes and find out who it was."
The first former official said: "I was stunned to find out that McMaster got him to be his special assistant, where he saw everything."
Ciaramella’s desk in the NSC suite in the White House’s West Wing gave him access to all types of NSC paperwork and a view of who walked in and out. “He would have seen all of the paperwork that went in from McMaster — all the paperwork that went into the president. He just would have seen everything,” that official added.
When asked about why Ciaramella was there, another official said he was “just temporarily filling in.” Ciaramella stayed on as McMaster's aide until he left the NSC. McMaster, who was criticized for not preventing leaks from the NSC, left his post in April 2018.
McMaster defended Obama administration NSC officials who stayed on into Trump’s first term, arguing that they would follow policy. “He was very angry that [Steve] Bannon and various other people were saying, ‘We don't want holdovers.' And when he had his first all-hands meeting, he said, ‘There is no such thing as holdovers,’” said the first official.
“His whole thing was professionals are perfectly capable of taking orders from the top, and they change when a president changes. I always thought that was exceedingly naive, given the open hostility and the open pledges of resistance … everything leaked. I mean, the president would have a phone call. It leaked the next day.”
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“The person that I always felt extremely uncomfortable around was Eric Ciaramella. He was one of the few guys around who seemed to know where the filing cabinets were, so to speak,” one former official told the Washington Examiner , adding that Ciaramella was antagonistic at an early Trump administration gathering when it was said that the goal was to turn Trump’s campaign promises and platform into policy.
When the issue of Ukraine was brought up at a policy meeting, Ciaramella mentioned aid to Ukraine. He became visibly upset, the official recounted, when he was told that Trump would review Ukraine policy and that it would likely not be the same as President Barack Obama’s. “He kind of rolled his eyes and went, 'Hmph!' He didn't leave the room, but it was pretty clear that he thought that we were wrong and he was right. ... I never trusted him with anything after that."
"Body language to me was all that this guy was about, you know. He was not happy about the Trump administration. He wasn't on board with the Trump policy. So, I always assumed that he was leaker number one and not to be trusted."
Although much of Ciaramella's access as Ukraine director was limited by officials who were suspicious of him, he then managed to become close enough to McMaster to become his special assistant in May 2017.
Another former NSC official told the Washington Examiner : "He was a principal suspect in the leak of the first transcripts that came out on Mexico and Australia [in August 2017]. We couldn't get McMaster to run the tapes and find out who it was."
The first former official said: "I was stunned to find out that McMaster got him to be his special assistant, where he saw everything."
Ciaramella’s desk in the NSC suite in the White House’s West Wing gave him access to all types of NSC paperwork and a view of who walked in and out. “He would have seen all of the paperwork that went in from McMaster — all the paperwork that went into the president. He just would have seen everything,” that official added.
When asked about why Ciaramella was there, another official said he was “just temporarily filling in.” Ciaramella stayed on as McMaster's aide until he left the NSC. McMaster, who was criticized for not preventing leaks from the NSC, left his post in April 2018.
"a real piece of work and a traitor." Is this the Trump defense?
To be a 'Never Trumper' will be a badge of honor proudly worn by those who sought country over Putin.
bb, may I remind you.....
They want to pretend that there was collusion between Trump and Russia when in reality it was the democrats colluding with both Ukraine and Russia.
Absolutely. Remember the Trump said, "Don't believe what you read and hear."
Your confirmation is priceless.
Besides, that is not what the report concluded. The truth will win. And Trump-----he will just be the same thing he's always been, a liar, cheat and a fraud. Oh yeah, he's also 'broke arse'---been floated by Russian and Saudi money for two decades.
Lol effen L on the 'forever Trumpers'.
You actually question the reality of those headlines ?
I don't think tRump supporters are dealing with any reality other than some kind of Bizarro World alternate reality;.
He's always inflated his 'assets'
No, but I do question the reality of the Trumpers.
How’s President Hillary doing?
The anti Trumpers are tools of Moscow and Kiev, not to mention Beijing.
Oh and GOP support is off the charts and at record highs. The more the democrats slime and slander our President the deeper we dig in and double down on our support of this man in direct proportion to the intensity of the disloyal opposition. All the democrats are doing is driving support for Trump ever higher. The people will not accept or tolerate the removal of this President from office except by election or term limits. The harder the “resistance” attacks him the former and more resolute our defense of him will become.
Your 'president' is slime and the truth isn't slander.
My President is our President and he will be so until Jan 20, 2025. And we will enjoy every moment of it.
I wonder if idiot piece of excrement 💩Schiff will bring all the alternative media persons who wrote Eric Ciaramella’s name or spoke it before the ethics committee? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😊😎😎🤭
not the first time the world has seen traitors pretending to be patriots and won't be the last.
The red MAGA hats make them easier to spot though.
The MAGA hat is the ID of a true and genuine American patriot.
Err, don't you mean Quisling?
that is true enough....
the faux patriots can't stand real patriots in maga hats who love their country and their president.
today's treasonous left is not going to win this fight. trump will not be removed from office and he will win re-election.
Yep, we're seeing that now, with the ultra right wingers who spit on our constitution and system of government, and put their fraudulent orange god over our country. They should be ashamed to call themselves Americans.
You mean true and genuine idiot, and un-American hater of our constitution.
LOL
your bs don't fly, will never get off the ground.
it will be fun watching liberals cry again when trump is re-elected.
have a good day
No that would be a secular progressive politician.
Nope. It’s the disloyal dishonest opposition that we are ashamed that they are Americans in name only.
That would be defenders of the prior Obama regime
And which part of the United States of America "Constitution" has Trump, or any of his supporters, said they "Hated" ?
Riddle me this:
Which President of these United States, had to make Freedom of speech, a requirement for our "Higher Learning Centers" ?
Wonder why that was needed ……. hmmmmmm !
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A very bad case of TDS - Trump DENIAL syndrome